Become a redstone junkie and see what you can make. Then see how compact you can make it. Then see it you can't expand the ideal into others. I cleared an area behind my house off, and have been using the dirt to make "models" of future redstone projects. I see what I can do with the wiring. Sometimes I just make little circuits to see if I can. Invert a signal for no reason, then invert it back just to know that I know what I'm doing. My favorite thing is learning how to make piston breaks for a signal. Like, using sticky pistons attached to blocks and being extended as a natural part of the line. Then you can make all sorts of default "e-stops" for your machines. I went overboard one time....had a twin lever control for a 2X2X2 piston door. It would open the first set sideways, the second up and down. So each lever could open it, or close it. But I needed a way to break either levers signal so the door would conceal itself again regardless of which side you were on. So I made twin breaks. Needless to say, I was wiring my tail off and what it amounted to was that you needed to have each switch correctly set inside AND out just to make it work the way it was supposed to anyway. Oh, and it never actually solved the bloody initial problem.
But...it was fun. Failing with redstone is more fun than succeeding with house building.
Deja vu! Just yesterday, I decided to use most of the basement of my largest building (17x8x4, leaving the 'L' offshoot alone for other stuff) to see what I could learn without screwing up the landscape. I quickly arrived at a 5-clock, and connected some note blocks to the circuit with repeaters in between to act as delay. They're playing the Close Encounters 5-tone ditty now.
Next, I read up some more on circuitry, and discovered a redstone torch can power the block directly above. So I sent a pulse up some block steps and planted a redstone torch just below the 1st floor of the building. Then I went up to the 1st floor and planted another such torch on the floor block above the one in the basement. It works. Now I have a clock pulse above ground, while the blocky circuitry is completely out of sight in the utility basement. This is pretty cool, and finding uses for it will keep me entertained for a while.
building idea's: skyscraper, biodome, massive erupting volcano, massive metropolis that runs from one end to the other, a giant mesa, massive underwater city.
Become a redstone junkie and see what you can make. Then see how compact you can make it. Then see it you can't expand the ideal into others. I cleared an area behind my house off, and have been using the dirt to make "models" of future redstone projects. I see what I can do with the wiring. Sometimes I just make little circuits to see if I can. Invert a signal for no reason, then invert it back just to know that I know what I'm doing. My favorite thing is learning how to make piston breaks for a signal. Like, using sticky pistons attached to blocks and being extended as a natural part of the line. Then you can make all sorts of default "e-stops" for your machines. I went overboard one time....had a twin lever control for a 2X2X2 piston door. It would open the first set sideways, the second up and down. So each lever could open it, or close it. But I needed a way to break either levers signal so the door would conceal itself again regardless of which side you were on. So I made twin breaks. Needless to say, I was wiring my tail off and what it amounted to was that you needed to have each switch correctly set inside AND out just to make it work the way it was supposed to anyway. Oh, and it never actually solved the bloody initial problem.
But...it was fun. Failing with redstone is more fun than succeeding with house building.
wow i might try that i didnt even read it all lol its a lot so i will try it. lol after i read it...
Levis Nightmare Ecape Island Escape The Puzzlemaster Jail Escape Skyblock Dispatched Escape the King The City of Testifica Castlevania
MAPS BY VECHS:::
Waking Up Hazardous Enviorment Training Sea of flame 1 and 2 Fallen Kingdom Infernal Sky 1 and 2 The Kaizo Caverns The Black Desert Canopy Carnage Legendary Nightmare Realm Sunburn Islands Spellbound Caves Lethamyr Ragequit Holidays Endless Deep
Levis Nightmare Ecape Island Escape The Puzzlemaster Jail Escape Skyblock Dispatched Escape the King The City of Testifica Castlevania
MAPS BY VECHS:
Waking Up Hazardous Enviorment Training Sea of flame 1 and 2 Fallen Kingdom Infernal Sky 1 and 2 The Kaizo Caverns The Black Desert Canopy Carnage Legendary Nightmare Realm Sunburn Islands Spellbound Caves Lethamyr Ragequit Holidays Endless Deep
1.3
Deja vu! Just yesterday, I decided to use most of the basement of my largest building (17x8x4, leaving the 'L' offshoot alone for other stuff) to see what I could learn without screwing up the landscape. I quickly arrived at a 5-clock, and connected some note blocks to the circuit with repeaters in between to act as delay. They're playing the Close Encounters 5-tone ditty now.
Next, I read up some more on circuitry, and discovered a redstone torch can power the block directly above. So I sent a pulse up some block steps and planted a redstone torch just below the 1st floor of the building. Then I went up to the 1st floor and planted another such torch on the floor block above the one in the basement. It works. Now I have a clock pulse above ground, while the blocky circuitry is completely out of sight in the utility basement. This is pretty cool, and finding uses for it will keep me entertained for a while.
I could go on and on, the list is endless
bank
tree house
water fountain
bread factory/cake factory
and a pvp arena
its all i could think of
this is the xbox section
We'll eventually have emeralds, just like 1.3. For the time being, just get all the other stuff on the list.
Go play some maps here are a few:
Levis Nightmare
Ecape Island
Escape The Puzzlemaster
Jail Escape
Skyblock
Dispatched
Escape the King
The City of Testifica
Castlevania
MAPS BY VECHS:::
Waking Up
Hazardous Enviorment Training
Sea of flame 1 and 2
Fallen Kingdom
Infernal Sky 1 and 2
The Kaizo Caverns
The Black Desert
Canopy Carnage
Legendary
Nightmare Realm
Sunburn Islands
Spellbound Caves
Lethamyr
Ragequit Holidays
Endless Deep
Here are a few websites FILLED with MC Maps:
http://www.minecraftmaps.com/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-vechs-super-hostile-series/
http://www.minecraftdl.com/category/minecraft-maps/
http://www.minecraftworldshare.com/Maps.aspx
These Should keep you occupied until Minecraft 1.5 That's ... ALOT =D
....and he's supposed to get these maps on the XBox 360 how???